To Those Who Pitied Me For My Third Son

Wild how many opinions people have!

Jun 9, 2022

ALL BOYS To Those Who Pitied Me For My Third Son   After a few days chilling in a hotel room blissfully alone – cannot recommend solitude and canned gin-and-tonics and Love Island highly enough – I'm back and ready to dive in. First up: It's amazing what people will say right to your face, isn't it? Today Hampton Williams Hofer writes about her joy at the news she was having a third boy and her frustration with the responses: "From family members to strangers, everyone had something to say." Here's what she wants them all to know.  — Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor   Read More

KID-TASTY How I Finally Got Veggies Into My Picky Eater   Personally, I could use all the help I can get with this one – here's what to know if you're in the same spot. Read More   WITNESS Parents And A Surviving Child From Uvalde Testify Before Congress To Demand Gun Control   "I don't want it to happen again," said 4th-grader Miah Cerillo, a survivor of the massacre in Uvalde. Read More   HOLA! BONJOUR! CIAO! Separating Fact From Fiction When It Comes To Raising A Bilingual Child   It seems there are quite a few misconceptions about not only what it means to be bilingual, but also how children process learning two languages at once. Read More

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STRATEGY Texting Your Teen To Get Them To Open Up Works, Trust Me   What if you started texting your teens about serious stuff, not just what time they're going to be home and what they want for dinner? That's what Diana Park tried with her kid: "I decided to try something: I sent her a text. I asked her the same questions I had asked her when I was upstairs with her in her room. But now I got answers." Have you ever tried it?   Read More

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